Greenhouse Evaluation of Reclamation Treatments for Perlite-Pumice Mine Spoils (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Greenhouse Evaluation of Reclamation Treatments for Perlite-Pumice Mine SpoilsSurface mining presents resource managers with the challenging problem of establishing vegetation on large disturbances covered by mine spoils. These spoils usually have uncertain structure, low nutrient availability, and often phytotoxic compounds. This is especially true in the arid and semiarid West where limited rainfall during the growing season and high soil surface temperatures fra quently limit plant establishment and growth. Consider able information has been accumulated over the past 15 years on techniques for revegetating spoils resulting from the surface mining of some of the more common commodi ties such as coal (fisher 1983, Wali phosphates (farmer and Blue copper, silver, and gold (brown and Chambers 1989, Brown and others 1978, Johnston and others 1975) and drastically disturbed lands in gen eral (allen 1988, Schaller and Sutton 1978, Thames 1977, Wali Little is known, however, about the unique spoil properties that must be considered for establishment of vegetation on spoils of less common minerals such as perlite and pumice.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.